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Jenny you did the right thing. If anything your job is more secure because your employer knows you're responsible enough to report things. It isn't wrong to feel embarrassed either. I hope everything works out!
You could always bring up the issue to the person making the mistake personally before doing anything official. Just say something like "I noticed that there was something wrong on this form, not sure who filled it out but I think it needs to be taken care of" Just make the issue itself the problem and not necessarily the person doing it even if you know they're wrong. This way it gives them a chance to fix it and stop doing whatever they're doing and not get in trouble. Also lets them know that you're paying attention and won't let anything get messed up around the center 
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On And getting a new conscience is easy. Just takes practice and repetition |
You are so awesome.
You did the right thing. If that costs you your job, or whatever else, so be it.
You have a responsibility to the people you care for, and to protect your employer. If doing so causes some friction, well, she souldn't have fucked up in the first place.
Being copmlicit in something that caused an adverse event, and having that on your record (not to mention you concience)would make it impossible for you to find work in nursing again, wouldn't it?
Jenny, you get a thumbs up from me.
Do it. I was in the same situation back in December. Found something really, really bad going on (see: maggots crawling all around my store's deli). Instead, I was cornered by my manager and assistant manager and told to keep my mouth shut. Needless to say, I gave them a week to fix the problem. They didn't, so I made a call one morning. Later that day I strolled into work and who's there? Health inspector. I never told them it was me that did it, because there were a few other people who knew, so I never got in trouble.
*shrug*
Your a nurse and your jobs looking after people. So you've done the right thing.
I've been recently getting the blame for a load mistakes which were made before I started my job, the person who brings it up is an older loudmouthed, petty, jealous and ignorant colleague. The reason why I think it's happening is because my fellow colleagues love to bitch and backstab, I was approached to join in on one of their nit picking to set someone up conversations on which I told them to fuck off. They're going to get their comeuppance one day.
I don't rat because it's a principle I've been raised with. If it's in the intrest of other peoples safety etc then it's the most honourable thing you can do.
This was definitely NOT a mistake. It was an outright lie.
I'll tell you what happened, for some context here.
There is a resident who gets two kinds of insulin. Normal, or long acting (basically the one that keeps him stable), once a day in the morning, and then rapid acting as needed 4 times a day.
Well when I got to work on Sunday morning, the nurse informed me that his blood sugar was very high, and that he had a standing order for 2 doses of rapid insulin before I'd have to send him to the hospital.
Now, normally the insulin is administered via an insulin pen into which cartridges of insulin go...but I noticed that the new order for this resident was in vial form (to be administered via syringe).
So I mentioned this to the nurse, saying "Oh, I see that Soandso's N insulin gets administered with a needle...". Her response was, "Yes, but I've been giving him Otherresident's old N insulin". Which is mistake number one right there. It's the same insulin but it doesn't matter...we are absolutely NOT allowed to give other people's medications to someone else.
So anyways, I checked the resident's blood sugar 45 minutes later and it was still high, so I gave the first standing order. I checked again another 45 minutes later, and it had only gone down by .2, so I gave the other standing order. I checked again another 45 minutes later, and his blood sugar had actually gone UP!
I knew something was totally fucking wrong (duh), so after I called the ambulance, etc. I went back to the nurse's office and looked for the N insulin that this nurse said she gave him.
WELL. First off, there was no insulin pen in the fridge loaded with N insulin. Second, none of the insulin pens we had in the nursing office even fit the cartridges of N insulin. Third, the vial of insulin that was actually prescribed for him hadn't even been opened yet. Which means it hadn't been used....in THREE days (from the time it was delivered from pharmacy).
So yeah, I was pretty fucking pissed...because she plain LIED to me about giving insulin. It also means that the other student nurse lied in his documentation as well (they both signed for giving this med).
Anyways...I'm pretty positive about this. I checked everywhere for other insulin and found nothing, cause I didn't want to just go accusing people or whatever.
And, the other thing...my work is not regulated. So yes, they WOULD fuck me over for something like this...because it will ultimately come back to the administrator, and she would never do anything to jeopardize the money coming in.
The administrator is the one I wrote the letter to...but I guarantee she's not going to do anything about for reasons stated above. Especially since the medications were signed for. Would be my word against theirs.
*sigh*
Anyways, yeah I don't care in the long run. Cause if the resident's family chooses to investigate this, I covered my ass.
Isn't messing with patient's medicine against the law regardless of the type of care their receiving (private or public)?
always good to file an incident report with these things, i spend half my shift writting the fucking things.....nothing major will happen to the nurse i dont think, ive seen people give ketamine instead of ketorlac, completely different drugs/ completely and utterly wrong 
Its always good to document everything that happened and everything you done, ie. writting down the patients bsl's everytime you took them ect
issues like this will happen throughout your career and you should never feel obliged to stick up for anyone...that shit doesnt sit well in the coroners court (if that ever eventuates)
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| Originally posted by bas Isn't messing with patient's medicine against the law regardless of the type of care their receiving (private or public)? |
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| Originally posted by narcism always good to file an incident report with these things, i spend half my shift writting the fucking things.....nothing major will happen to the nurse i dont think, ive seen people give ketamine instead of ketorlac, completely different drugs/ completely and utterly wrong Its always good to document everything that happened and everything you done, ie. writting down the patients bsl's everytime you took them ect issues like this will happen throughout your career and you should never feel obliged to stick up for anyone...that shit doesnt sit well in the coroners court (if that ever eventuates) |
Good job Ms Pie, you did the right thing. I was in a similar situation when I was working a part time doorman position . I noticed the handyman in the building we worked in was one lazy douche. He would constantly tell me that if anyone asked for him tell them that he's busy working in an apartment. He especially used this to his advantage when the superintendent was away on vacation. I finally had enough of the shit and reported him to the building Manager who just happens to be a serious Jewish man and it really worked to my advantage.
He was suspended for 2 weeks with no pay, the union is what helped him from getting fired. My last day of work in that place he waited in the lobby for me. I tightened up my fist thinking this guy wanted to throw the hands, but he just wanted to vent. I'll never forget his words "I can't believe you fucking did that? what the fuck did I ever do to you?"
He was probably expecting a long winded explanation from me, I just walked past him and simply replied in a calm low tone "go fuck yourself"
Sorry for the long story, lazy people piss me the fuck off.
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| Originally posted by jennypie Yep. I ALWAYS document everything I do. I guess the thing with this job is that I'm just a student, and I'll never be able to find such a good opportunity anywhere else. But then, what are they gonna fire me for? Doing my job? LoL. I just don't want to get raped for hours. Honestly, this place is so fucking shady. |
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| Originally posted by narcism dont you have laws to protect you from shit like this happening to you? |
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| Originally posted by narcism so they gave like protaphane instead of actrapid? |
Are you sure the nurse didn't give the patient an analgesic the "wrong" way?
welp now i know no who NOT to trust if im ever doing a shinding
Re: Doing the "right thing" at the cost of your job.
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| Originally posted by jennypie An ethical thread I guess. This weekend at work I discovered a HUGE mistake, actually a lie, that one of nurses made. Thing is, she's the charge nurse. I was hesitant to write her up, because I feared that I would get less hours for exposig her mistake (yes, it's like that at my work). But then I thought, "No, I have a duty to the residents' safety first and foremost, and if I don't report this I will also be liable". So I wrote her and the other nurse who made the same mistake/lie. Actually, I tried to not point the finger as much as possible...but it was pretty hard not to. So anyways, I feel good about doing the right thing...but now I'm scared to see her next...or even what's going to happen at work. This is the kind of shit that our facility can get sued for, and the charge nurse can lose her licence. Anything like this ever happen to any of you? |
As someone who's had a relative in the hospital recently, allbeit for a routine operation I know i'd rather a nurse was honest about something like this and if I was the patients rellie and found out, I'd totally buy you dinner for doing the right thing.
Re: Doing the "right thing" at the cost of your job.
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| Originally posted by jennypie An ethical thread I guess. This weekend at work I discovered a HUGE mistake, actually a lie, that one of nurses made. Thing is, she's the charge nurse. I was hesitant to write her up, because I feared that I would get less hours for exposig her mistake (yes, it's like that at my work). But then I thought, "No, I have a duty to the residents' safety first and foremost, and if I don't report this I will also be liable". So I wrote her and the other nurse who made the same mistake/lie. Actually, I tried to not point the finger as much as possible...but it was pretty hard not to. So anyways, I feel good about doing the right thing... |
Not enough butt fucking in this thread.
my boss told me not to rock out today, but i explained you have to test the starpower. he told me he doesn't care about starpower or the whammy bar.
i tested them both anyways.
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| Originally posted by glass Are you sure the nurse didn't give the patient an analgesic the "wrong" way? |
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| Originally posted by jennypie diarrhea |
When you feel your stomach rollin' and your colon's really swollen, diarrhea!
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